@article {BF-2923,
	title = {Relationship between leaf traits and fire-response strategies in shrub species of a mountainous region of south-eastern Australia},
	journal = {Annals of Botany},
	year = {2011},
	abstract = {{\textdagger} Background and Aims Resprouting and seed recruitment are important ways in which plants respond to fire.
However, the investments a plant makes into ensuring the success of post-fire resprouting or seedling recruitment
can result in trade-offs that are manifested in a range of co-occurring morphological, life history and physiological
traits. Relationships between fire-response strategies and other traits have been widely examined in fire-prone
Mediterranean-type climates. In this paper, we aim to determine whether shrubs growing in a non-Mediterranean
climate region exhibit relationships between their fire-response strategy and leaf traits.
{\textdagger} Methods Field surveys were used to classify species into fire-response types. We then compared specific leaf
area, leaf dry-matter content, leaf width, leaf nitrogen and carbon to nitrogen ratios between (a) obligate
seeders and all other resprouters, and (b) obligate seeders, facultative resprouters and obligate resprouters.
{\textdagger} Key Results Leaf traits only varied between fire-response types when we considered facultative resprouters as a
separate group to obligate resprouters, as observed after a large landscape-scale fire. We found no differences
between obligate seeders and obligate resprouters, nor between obligate seeders and resprouters considered as
one group.
{\textdagger}Conclusions The results suggest that facultative resprouters may require a strategy of rapid resource acquisition
and fast growth in order to compete with species that either resprout, or recruit from seed. However, the overall
lack of difference between obligate seeders and obligate resprouters suggests that environmental factors are exerting
similar effects on species{\textquoteright} ecological strategies, irrespective of the constraints and trade-offs that may be
associated with obligate seeding and obligate resprouting. These results highlight the limits to trait co-occurrences
across different ecosystems and the difficulty in identifying global-scale relationships amongst traits.},
	doi = {10.1093/aob/mcr263},
	author = {Vivian, L M and Geoffrey J. Cary}
}
@article {BF-2423,
	title = {Classifying the fire-response traits of plants: How reliable are species-level classifications?},
	journal = {Austral Ecology},
	volume = {35},
	year = {2010},
	month = {05/2010},
	pages = {264 - 273},
	abstract = {Plant species in fire-prone environments possess specific traits which allow them to survive fire. Species are commonly classified according to whether they survive fire and resprout or whether they are killed by fire and regenerate from seed. However, different populations of the same species have been shown to vary in their responses. Therefore, the classification of a species into a single category based on fire-response traits may not necessarily be representative of every population under every circumstance. This study examined the extent of within-species variation in fire-response traits of woody plants in south-eastern Australia after the 2003 fires. Species were then classified using two approaches: (i) using data from a field survey of fire-response traits, taking into account within-species variation; and (ii) using species{\textquoteright} fire responses listed in a pre-existing fire-response database compiled from a variety of primary sources. Field data showed that the majority of species in the study area resprouted after fire with around one in 10 species variable in their resprouting response. Almost half of all species varied from site to site according to whether they regenerated from seed, either solely or in addition to resprouting. The numbers of species classified as resprouters and seed regenerators varied according to the classification method used. Differences were also found between the classification method when calculating the mean proportion of resprouters and seed regenerators across sites. The fire-response traits for some species from the database were found to differ from the observed field responses. This study demonstrated that the application of a fire-response trait, reported in a trait database, to an entire species, may not adequately represent the actual fire responses of the populations of interest. Rather than considering the fire-response traits of a species, accurate prediction may be better achieved by considering how different populations of plants will respond to fire.},
	doi = {10.1111/j.1442-9993.2009.02032.x},
	author = {Vivian, L M and Doherty ,  Michael and Geoffrey J. Cary}
}
@article {BF-2392,
	title = {Influence of fire severity on the regeneration, recruitment and distribution of eucalypts in the Cotter River Catchment, Australian Capital Territory},
	journal = {Austral Ecology},
	volume = {33},
	year = {2008},
	month = {02/2008},
	pages = {55 - 67},
	abstract = {Plant responses to fire are variable between and within species and are influenced by numerous factors including fire severity. This study investigated the effects of fire severity on the regeneration and recruitment of forest eucalypts in the Cotter River Catchment, Australian Capital Territory (ACT). This study also examined the potential for the obligate seeder Eucalyptus delegatensis R.T. Baker (Myrtaceae) to expand into adjacent stands dominated by the facultative resprouter Eucalyptus fastigata H. Deane \& Maiden (Myrtaceae) by seed shed and seedling establishment beyond the pre-fire boundary. Sites were located in areas of either higher or lower fire severity, and transects were placed across the boundary of stands of E. delegatensis and E. fastigata. Species distributions, tree survival and seedling densities and heights were recorded, and the location of each boundary was determined as the region of maximum change in species composition along the transects. Eucalyptus delegatensis was the only eucalypt killed by higher severity fire. However, E. delegatensis seedling density was greater at higher severity sites than lower severity sites. Eucalyptus fastigata seedling density was low across all sites, with other eucalypts producing few, if any, seedlings. There was no evidence that E. delegatensis had increased its range into downslope stands dominated by E. fastigata. Patterns of vegetative recovery and seedling recruitment may be related to a number of factors, including differences in allocation patterns between seeders and sprouters, and the effects of overstory and understory competition. It is unclear what processes impede E. delegatensis seedling establishment beyond the stand boundary, but may involve an inability of E. delegatensis to shed seed sufficiently far downslope; unsuitable conditions for germination beyond the boundary; or, competition from a retained or resprouting overstory, despite the potential for increased dispersal distance soon after fire.},
	issn = {14429985},
	doi = {10.1111/j.1442-9993.2007.01790.x},
	author = {Vivian, L M and Geoffrey J. Cary and Ross Bradstock and Gill, A. Malcolm}
}
